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<p class="MsoPlainText">You might "enjoy" the (explicit lyrics) curve ball of "My 1st Single" by Eminem. I once spent several days representing the relationship between the expected stresses of the language and the performed stresses in just the first third
of a verse, and several more days with a bottle of gin to recover. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">My therapist told me not to try and recreate any of the rhythmically juicy details again here, so I'll leave you a YouTube link, which very helpfully includes the lyrics:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA87Z_czjL8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA87Z_czjL8</a> (See also the lyrics here:
<a href="http://rap.genius.com/Eminem-my-1st-single-lyrics">http://rap.genius.com/Eminem-my-1st-single-lyrics</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. Freya Jarman SFHEA
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Music<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Liverpool<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Queer Voices:</span></i><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
<a href="http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=470391">http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=470391</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Academia.edu: <a href="http://liverpool.academia.edu/FreyaJarman">
http://liverpool.academia.edu/FreyaJarman</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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